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This meeting is for invited participants only.

Friday, May 12, 2006 - Santa Fe Institute, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Van Transportation from Hotel Santa Fe Lobby to SFI
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m. Welcome
9:05 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. President's Report (including Overview of SFI Science), Geoffrey West
9:45 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Overview of Education (Ginger Richardson) Overview of International Program and Business Network (Shannon Larsen)
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Talk(s) on Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research: Eric Smith (SFI) and Harold Morowitz (George Mason University)
10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Coffee break
10:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Trustees Operational Review Science Governance, Roles of Science Board and SSC, Chris Wood, Doug Erwin, Simon Levin, John Holland
10:50 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Overview, Chris Wood, Vice President, SFI
11:00 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Harold Morowitz, "Retrospective on the SSC and the Science Board"
11:10 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. Doug Erwin, "Report on Science Governance and Proposed By-Law Changes"
11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Discussion on Science Governance Issues, Simon Levin
11:40 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Science Resources, Jim Rutt
11:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Characteristics of SFI Science?, David Krakauer, Geoffrey West
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Discussion on Science Issues, Simon Levin
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Talks on Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research:
"The Future of Multiple Selves," Jon Wilkins (SFI)
“Allowable Paths in Evolution and the Occupancy of Phenotypic Space,” Richard Lewontin (Harvard University)
“Systems Biology and Aging,” Walter Fontana (Harvard Medical School)
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Talks on Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research:
“Network Dynamics of Cities and Industrial Fields ,” Doug White (University of California-Irvine)
“Degeneracy: A Characteristic of the Immune System,” Eli Sercarz (Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Open discussion on Science at SFI, Simon Levin
5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. SFI Annual Secondary School Prize for Scientific Excellence Award Reception and Ceremony
Evening – Free
Saturday, May 13, 2006 - Santa Fe Institute, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Van Transportation from Hotel Santa Fe Lobby to SFI
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Talks on Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research:
“Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter,” David Pines (ICAM, U C Davis,and Los Alamos National Laboratory)
“Innovation and the Construction of Biodiversity,” Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History)
"New Frontiers and Opportunities for Complexity Education," Eric Klopfer (MIT)
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Talks on Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research:
“Foundations of Theoretical Medicine,” David Krakauer (SFI)
“TBD,” Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico and SFI)
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Discussion on Science at SFI, Simon Levin
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Talks on Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research:
“Socioeconomic Challenges for a Sustainable Biosphere,” Simon Levin (Princeton)
“TBD,” Doug Arent (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
“Energy and Its Consequences,” Dan Schrag (Harvard University)
2:20 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Continuation of Discussion on Science at SFI, Simon Levin
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Closed Discussion and Science Board Business Session (including Science at SFI, future areas, initiatives and people to consider)
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Vans depart SFI for Palace of the Governors
5:30 p.m.	Reception and Buffet Dinner, Palace of the Governors Museum and Courtyard, 100 Palace Avenue, Santa Fe
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